ENHANCE certificate of participation
Gender and Diversity
BSc Students
MSc Students
Description
(Former name of this offer: Pre-departure Seminars)
Are you ready for your intercultural journey abroad?
As students from diverse backgrounds start their journey to study abroad, administrative procedures are a must. However, a crucial question remains: Are these students adequately prepared for an extended stay in another culture?
This workshop is tailored to ready all outgoing students for their intercultural journey to an ENHANCE university or another university outside of ENHANCE network.
Please note that this seminar doesn't handle administrative topics. It specifically focuses on intercultural sensitivity. Upon completion, participants can receive an ENHANCE certificate if desired.
Acquire new skills
Develop essential skills in intercultural sensitivity and get well-prepared for your journey abroad. Connect with other outgoing students from ENHANCE universities.
When?
The workshop is scheduled at various dates from 16:00 to 18:00 CET. Choose your date below in the form. Choose the date that is the closest to your departure date.
Minimum Number of participants:
30 is the minimum number of the participants to offer the seminar succesfully. The maximum number is not limited due to the online format.
Not only for Erasmus+ mobilities!
The offer is open for all students going abroad soon from a university of ENHANCE Alliance to another university. This can be a university of ENHANCE Alliance or another university outside of our alliance. We welcome all kinds of students joining a educational mobility activity abroad. This can be Erasmus+, ENHANCE EEP program or any other funding.
Ideal Timing for the Training
While ideally taken before departure, the training remains relevant even if attended a few weeks after your arrival at the host university.
This is an ENHANCE Alliance offer
Coordinated by the ENHANCE Work Package Diversity, Impact, and Dissemination.
Visit also the "Anti-bias lunch break" as follow-up offer
Following the pre-departure training, consider attending the "Anti-Bias Lunch Break" as a follow-up. Highly recommended, this 60-minute session addresses implicit biases, microaggressions, intersectionality, and a practical 3-step approach. Facilitated by the ENHANCE Ombudsperson, it aims to raise awareness and provide tools for managing unconscious biases. Find upcoming sessions here: https://enhanceuniversity.eu/educational-offer/innovative-learning-campus/
Join the ENHANCE Mobility Ambassador Programme and empower future students on their journey.
👉 https://enhanceuniversity.eu/enhance-for-students/buddies/
📬 Contact
Melih Özkardes (he/him) - Work Package Lead at ENHANCE: melih.oezkardes@enhanceuniversity.eu
💬 Participant's quote:
"This seminar made me reflect on things I hadn’t considered before—like cultural misconceptions, my own biases, and how identity shapes interactions. It was interactive and eye-opening, and gave me the tools to navigate cultural differences with more confidence during my study abroad."
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Expected learning outcomes
Acquire new skills
Develop essential skills in intercultural sensitivity and get well-prepared for your journey abroad. Connect with other outgoing students from ENHANCE universities.
Prequisites
Only for students who are already selected by their international offices to go abroad soon.
Not only for Erasmus+ mobilities!
The offer is open for all students going abroad soon from a university of ENHANCE Alliance to another university. This can be a university of ENHANCE Alliance or another university outside of our alliance. We welcome all kinds of students joining a educational mobility activity abroad. This can be Erasmus+, ENHANCE EEP program or any other funding.
Ideal Timing for the Training
While ideally taken before departure, the training remains relevant even if attended a few weeks after your arrival at the host university.
Quality assurance
The two-level mutual trust-based quality assurance scheme has been adopted:
- at the university level: RWTH Aachen has applied its internal quality assurance procedures and structures to the proposal of Intercultural Prep Seminars for Outgoing Students (Several Dates) it submitted to ENHANCE and to its implementation - the related learning activities,
- at the Alliance level: the body composed of Education Officers has made decisions regarding the inclusion of Intercultural Prep Seminars for Outgoing Students (Several Dates) proposed by RWTH Aachen to the Innovative Learning Campus part of the joint ENHANCE educational offer, based on the compliance with the formal requirements and ENHANCE goals.
Learning Assessment
not applicable